Meghan Kirkwood - ARTIST BIO
EDUCATION:
Unversity of Florida, Gainesville, FL 2011-
Major in African Art
Unversity of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 2011
MA Art History. Concentration in Photography and African Art
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 2009
MFA Art Studio - Photography
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI 2006
BFA Photography, Honors
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 2004
BA Art History and W. European Studies, Honors
Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin 2002-3
Liberal Arts Studies, Exchange Program
AWARDS:
Center for African Studies Pre-dissertation Research Award, University of Florida 2012
Jeanne And Hunt Davis Pre-dissertation Research Award, University of Florida 2012
FLAS Academic Year Fellowship, University of Florida 2012
Cutler Graduate Travel Award, University of Florida 2012
School of Art and Art History Travel Award, University of Florida 2011
College of Fine Arts Fellowship for Full Graduate Study, University of Florida 2011
Merit-based Full Scholarship Residency, Vermont Studio Center, VT 2011
Morris Scholarship for Outstanding Entering Graduate Student, University of Kansas 2009
Stone Center for Latin American Studies (Tulane) Grant to photograph in Brazilian Amazon 2009
Stone Center for Latin American Studies (Tulane) Summer Research Grant 2008
Artist Residency, Buffalo River National Park, Harrison, AR 2008
Full tuition scholarship, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 2007-9
Awarded Alumni Scholar designation, Grinnell College, 2006
Artist Residency, Isle Royale National Park, Houghton, MI 2005
RISD Scholarship Program grant to support academic studies 2005
John Chironna Memorial Scholarship for Academic Excellence 2005
Stein Summer Grant to photograph midwestern landscape 2005
Student Fellowship, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI 2005
Henry Steiner Award for Creativity in the Arts, Juror’s Award, Grinnell College 2004
Creative Arts Grant to Study with Berlin Photographer, Helga Paris 2003
Grant to publish book of photographs “Belleza y Tristeza: From Grinnell to Tijuana” 2002
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED):
SOLO:
"Chalmette, New Orleans" WARP House Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 2011
“Ecology within the Frame” Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 2009
“Seven Months Later: New Orleans” Red Door Gallery, Providence, RI 2006
“Yesterday and Today: An Exploration of post-WWII Germany through Photography”
Forum Terrace Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 2004
“Fotographie Aus der Kunsthochschule,” Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, Berlin, Germany 2003
JURIED:
"Student Juried Show" University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 2012
"Fall Semester Juried Show" 4Most Gallery, Gainesville, FL 2011
“Alumni Art Show” Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 2006
“Sun Pictures to Mega-Pixels,” Williamsburg Art & Historical Soc., Brooklyn, NY 2007
Photography Departmental Show, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI 2005
GROUP:
MFA Candidacy Review Show, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans 2008
Photography Senior Show, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI 2006
“But when we are silent we are still afraid,” Senior Thesis Show, Red Eye Gallery,
Providence, RI 2006
Summertime, Stein Grant Award Winners, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI 2005
Student Fellowship Exhibition, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI 2005